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Mohit B Patel1, Ariel Stavri, Nichole S Curvey
1Center for Nanoscience, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1 University Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63121, USA. gokelg@umsl.edu.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|August 20, 2014
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The presence of low concentrations of hydraphile synthetic amphiphiles have been found to dramatically alter the primary/lateral root architectural balance in the A. thaliana plant model system and a correlation to ion transport by the hydraphiles is consistent with the effects.
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